Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, which was home to New York City’s first municipal airport, will now be used as a migrant shelter aimed at housing over 2,500 migrants.
Mayor Eric Adams claims the city is currently housing more than 59,000 asylum seekers in over 200 different sites, and over 100,000 have entered the city seeking shelter.
Statement From Governor Kathy Hochul on Negotiations With Biden Administration on Floyd Bennett Field:
“After months of negotiations, the Biden Administration has provided us with a tentative contract that would allow New York to utilize Floyd Bennett Field as a shelter for asylum seekers. Once the final agreement is signed, we will work with Mayor Adams and his team to set up a Humanitarian Emergency Relief and Response Center at Floyd Bennett Field with the capacity to shelter more than 2,000 asylum seekers. We are grateful to President Biden for his support of this initiative and are committed to continuing our advocacy on behalf of the people of New York.
“Ultimately the path out of this crisis is granting work authorization immediately, so these individuals can move out of shelter and into independent living arrangements. This site will be critical in the interim for the City of New York to provide humanitarian aid, as we work collectively to get people on the path to asylum seeker status and legal work.”
New York City Mayor Eric Adams today released the following statement on Floyd Bennett Field:
“For months, Governor Hochul and I have been urging the federal government to allow us to use Floyd Bennett Field to help house some of the more than 100,000 asylum seekers who have sought our care here in New York City, and I’m grateful that we have a tentative agreement to move forward on this site. I thank Governor Hochul for her commitment to pay for this site, and I’m looking forward to more of this kind of partnership with our friends in Albany as we manage this ongoing crisis. But let’s be clear: because we haven’t seen meaningful policy changes that would alter the course of this crisis, we’ve been forced to play an unsustainable game of ‘whack-a-mole’, opening new site after new site as asylum seekers continue to arrive by the thousands. We will continue to advocate for expedited work authorization for asylum seekers, a federal declaration of emergency, and a national and state decompression strategy, and we’re committed to making today’s announcement the beginning of a new era of enhanced partnership between our local, state, and federal governments.”
The following is my official statement regarding the disappointing news that Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn is being used as a shelter for the migrants: pic.twitter.com/xJ7NSXKGgo
— Stacey Pheffer Amato (@Stacey23AD) August 21, 2023
Yay! More illegals coming into NY paid for by our tax dollars